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Webster 1913 Edition

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(stĕgˊō̍-sa̤′rŭs)

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

στέγη

roof +

σαῦροσ

a lizard.]

(Paleon.)

A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.